Iowa · Private foundation
Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,022
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $602k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $57k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $58k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $52k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $43k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $36k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $38k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $44k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Kol Ami | $62,942 | 7 | n/a |
| Salt Lake City Rotary Foundation | $17,750 | 6 | 1% |
| Cedar Rapids Museum of Art | $13,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Aopa Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Red Cedar Chamber Music | $10,630 | 2 | 3% |
| United Way of East Central Iowa | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Other Side Academy | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Orchestra Iowa Inc | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ballet West | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc | $6,250 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($173k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · Bryant Foundation Inc · United Way of East Central Iowa · Baird Foundation Inc · The Slappey Family Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Mercy Medical Center
How this is measured
About Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund
- How much does Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund give?
- Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund reported 28 grants totaling $58,477 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Religion (19%), Health (11%).
- Who are Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Congregation Kol Ami ($63k), Salt Lake City Rotary Foundation ($18k), Cedar Rapids Museum of Art ($13k).
- Does Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, United Fire Group Foundation.
- Where is Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund based?
- Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky Fund is based in IA.
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